Will Hurricane Earl Cause NYC Evacuation?

To me, nothing seems more strange than a hurricane barreling into New York City (NYC). However, hurricanes have struck this nations largest city before - so local residence and "Big Apple" meteorologist are keeping a close eye on Hurricane Earl as it approaches the U.S. east coast. Latest weather reports place Hurricane Earl not making landfall at all in the United States, but instead it will skip along the east coast from the Carolina's to Maine and eventually end up making landfall in Canada. When the next big hurricane strikes NYC, it will cause more damage than most people could imagine. That leads to my next question and that is "will New York City issue an evacuation order as Hurricane Earl approaches"?

I'm not even sure if it would be possible for either the local, state or federal authorities to be able to evacuate NYC as Hurricane Earl approached. Tens of millions of people call the New York City (NYC) area home and if the expected path of Hurricane Earl continues as it has been the past few days - sometime around Labor Day the City of New York will receive the full force of Hurricane Earl winds and storm surge. If you think back to 2005 when Hurricane Katrina took out most of the City of New Orleans, there were thousands of people stranded even with many days warning time for folks to get out of the city.

The difference between New Orleans and Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and NYC and Hurricane Earl in 2010 are like the difference between night and day. For one thing, tens of millions more people call the NYC area home compared to New Orleans. Also, if there was ever a need to evacuate the greater NYC area - it would probably take close to a month for everyone to be removed from that huge city. Unlike New Orleans, where most people know how to drive a car - in New York City, most residence use public transportation to get from point A to point B and there is just not enough buses and trains to effectively evacuate NYC in a matter of days. Let's all hope and pray that Hurricane Earl does not take direct aim at NYC, because if it does the disaster there will make Hurricane Katrina (2005) look like nothing at all.

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